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Events on Monday 4 August 1704 1
1704Capture of GibraltarAnglo-Dutch fleet seizes the Rock from SpainAn Anglo-Dutch force under Admiral George Rooke and Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt bombarded and captured Gibraltar from Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession. The garrison surrendered on 4 August 1704. Britain retained the territory after the war, and Gibraltar remains a British Overseas Territory today.